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Grid Poet — 28 April 2026, 00:00
Wind leads at 18.1 GW but coal and gas fill the night gap, with 3.5 GW net imports needed.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on 28 April, German consumption sits at 44.8 GW against 41.3 GW domestic generation, requiring approximately 3.5 GW of net imports. Wind generation is robust at 18.1 GW combined (onshore 15.8 GW, offshore 2.3 GW), delivering the bulk of the 57.3% renewable share despite the late hour. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 6.0 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW — all dispatched to cover the residual load of 26.6 GW under zero solar conditions. The day-ahead price of 112.7 EUR/MWh reflects the cost of running significant fossil capacity alongside firm import demand on a fully overcast spring night.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal embers glow beneath a starless vault where turbines carve the April dark, their blades tracing circles no eye can see. The grid breathes heavy, buying power from distant borders to feed a nation asleep under leaden skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
57%
Renewable share
18.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.3 GW
Total generation
-3.5 GW
Net import
112.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
295
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers receding into deep perspective across a dark rolling plain; wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly glinting sea; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin tall exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular boiler house and a chimney; biomass 4.2 GW is a mid-ground facility with a domed digester tank and low exhaust, warmly lit; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with spillway barely visible in the far centre background. The sky is completely black, heavy with 100% cloud cover — no moon, no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever — a deep oppressive ink-dark canopy pressing down on the scene, conveying the high electricity price. Spring vegetation is fresh but invisible in the darkness except where sodium streetlights cast orange pools on young grass and budding trees. Temperature near 10 °C suggested by faint mist clinging to low ground. Low wind speed at ground level shown by gently turning turbine blades. The entire image is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blackness and artificial amber-orange industrial illumination, atmospheric depth achieved through layered fog and receding light sources. Meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, CCGT stacks, and coal plant infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 April 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-27T23:53 UTC · Download image